polling

SurveyUSA has the results of an ugly round of South Carolina polling:
Based on what you know, should Gov. Mark Sanford remain in office?
Remain in office – 34 percent
Resign – 60 percent
Not sure – 5 percent
Strikingly, the gap between white and black opinion is larger than the gap between female and male opinion. Fifty-six percent of [...]

The GOP-leaning polling outfit Resurgent Republic is out with a new survey that tests conservative messaging on health care and recommends that Republicans talk about “budgetary impact, taxes and the threat to private coverage” to scuttle Democratic plans. But the internals aren’t that rosy for the Republican position, either. The poll asks this question:
Do you [...]

At least according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, the results of which were released over the weekend. From The Times:
The national telephone survey, which was conducted from June 12 to 16, found that 72 percent of those questioned supported a government-administered insurance plan — something like Medicare for those under 65 — [...]

The latest Quinnipiac University poll results are in for Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) re-election bid — and they’re being cast as a win for the senator, even though he still trails a possible Republican challenger. The survey found that nearly half of Connecticut voters don’t trust Dodd and one in four Democrats say they’d support [...]

So, GOP: what have your campaigns in favor of indefinite detention and torture — or in Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) case, becoming anti-anti-torture — gotten you? Democracy Corps:
For the first time in our research, Democrats are at full parity on perceptions of which party would best manage national security, while they have moved far ahead [...]

Well, not no one, but only a quarter of people polled by Rasmussen Reports could correctly identify what “cap-and-trade” legislation pertained to.
Given a choice of three options, just 24 percent of voters can correctly identify the cap-and-trade proposal as something that deals with environmental issues. A slightly higher number (29 percent) believe the proposal has [...]

Well, not quite anymore. A new Hays Research poll from Alaska has Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) popularity falling precipitously from the mid-80s to only 54 percent, with 42 percent of Alaskans saying they have a “negative” view of her.
Some popularity drop-off isn’t uncommon right now, as states battle with their budgets, but Palin has really [...]

The new Quinnipiac poll on Pennsylvania’s 2010 U.S. Senate race shows Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) thrashing Republican candidate Pat Toomey, but only narrowly leading former Gov. Tom Ridge (R-Pa.). But since the poll did not ask Republicans who they’d choose in a primary between Toomey and Ridge (who has not come out and said he’d [...]

Byron York has responded to the criticism of his column on the “white-black divide” of presidential support by (yawn) crying that he’s been accused of racism.
I wrote that citing Obama’s “sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are” … Maybe “across-the-board” would have been [...]

Just when the Republican Party is skidding along to its lowest level of power since the 1970s, here comes Scott Rasmussen, the only pollster who matters:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 41 percent would vote for their district’s Republican candidate while 38 percent would choose the Democrat. Thirty-one percent of conservative Democrats [...]